RIVIERE-FABES SYMPOSIUM
The Sixth Riviere-Fabes Symposium
on Analysis and PDE was held
at the School of Mathematics
from April 25th to the 27th,
2003. Professor's Ronald Coifman
(Yale University) and Michael
Christ (Berkeley) each delivered
two lectures describing beautiful
and varied applications of harmonic
and functional analysis. Coifman's
two talks centered on approximation
in high dimensions, in particular
various issues involved in approximating
empirical functions of a large
number of parameters (e.g. geometric
analysis of data sets embedded
in high dimensions.) Michael
Christ spoke on recent ill-posedness
results for nonlinear Schrodinger
equations, and also recent work
on the d-bar Neumann problem,
magnetic Schrodinger operators,
and the Aharonov-Bohm phenomenon.
Other speakers were Alex Iosevich
(Missouri), "Analysis and
combinatorics of distances set";
Gerd Mockenhaupt (Georgia Tech),
"On the Hardy-Littlewood
majorant property"; Camil
Muscalu (UCLA), "Multilinear
singular integrals"; and
Mikhail Safonov (Minnesota),
"Mean value theorem for
harmonic functions: some unusual
applications". The conference
dinner was Saturday evening
in the newly renovated Campus
Club in Coffman Union. We were
fortunate to be joined there
by Esther Fabes.
The organizing committee consisted
of Fernando Reitich, M. Carme
Calderer, Markus Keel, Carlos
Kenig (U of Chicago), and Walter
Littman.
The conference was expertly
managed by Harry Singh and Kathy
Swedell.
History:
This Symposium was established
in memory of our colleagues
Nestor M. Riviere and Eugene
B. Fabes. Both of them were
analysts and did their graduate
work together at the University
of Chicago. After finishing
his Ph.D. under Alberto Calderon
in 1966, Nestor joined the School
of Mathematics the same year.
Gene finished his Ph.D. under
Antoni Zygmund in 1965 and spent
two years at Rice University
before coming to Minnesota in
1967. The two started a new
era in classical analysis at
Minnesota. Unfortunately for
us, cancer claimed Nestor's
life at the young age of 38
in 1978, ending a brilliant
career. The department established
the Nestor M. Rivire Lecture
in his memory. Every year a
highly distinguished mathematician
delivers a lecture in the broad
area of analysis. Gene usually
took care of the organizational
work and the Rivire Lecture
was supported by a fund established
by donations from friends of
Nestor. In 1997 another tragedy
struck. Gene passed away just
after he turned sixty and was
still at the peak of his productive
career. A list of his mathematical
achievements can be found in
his obituary in the Amer. Math.
Soc. Notices, v. 45 (1998),
pp. 706-708, and in the Journal
of Fourier Analysis and Appl.,
v. 4, no. 4/5 (1998). Former
colleagues, students and friends
of Nestor and Gene from all
over the world expressed the
sentiment that we should establish
an annual symposium in their
memory. Families of Nestor and
Gene fully endorsed the idea
of turning the Nestor M. Rivire
Lecture into the Rivire-Fabes
Symposium. With financial support
from interested people the symposium
was formally established in
1998.
THE SEVENTH RIVIERE-FABES SYMPOSIUM
ON ANALYSIS AND PDE,
APRIL 23-25, 2004.
Two one-hour lectures will be
delivered by Professors H. Brezis,
Rutgers University, and S.R.S
Varadhan, Courant Institute.
In addition, the following speakers
will each give a one-hour talk:
J. Pipher, Brown University,
S. Wu, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, and A. Nagel and
A. Kiselev, University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
Organizers: Nicolai Krylov (Chair),
Carlos Kenig, Walter Littman,
Fernando Reitich, Ofer Zeitouni
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SMALL ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 19-21,
2003 |
A conference in algebraic
topology was organized to
coincide with the visit
of Jean Lannes (Ecole Polytechnique)
as Ordway Visiting Professor
in the Mathematics Department.
The speakers were W. Chacholski
(Minnesota), A. Adem (Wisconsin),
P. Goerss and S. Priddy
(Northwestern), H. Sadofsky
(Oregon), J. Morava and
S. Wilson (Johns Hopkins),
F. Cohen (Rochester), N.
Kuhn (Virginia) and J. Strom
(Western Michigan) as well
as Prof. Lannes himself.
The overall theme of the
talks tended to reflect
the powerful algebraic techniques
in use in topology, some
of them pioneered by participants
at the conference, and in
which many conference participants
were expert. The occasion
provided an opportunity
for interaction in this
interdisciplinary area of
algebra and topology, between
researchers who know each
other quite well but see
each other infrequently,
and also between several
of the graduate students
in the department and the
visitors.A conference dinner
was held in the Jewel of
India' on Saturday night,September
20. The conference was privately
funded, and the organizers
were Professors Badzioch,
Feshbach, Gershenson, Kahn,
Voronov and Webb. The conference
was judged by the participants
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THE
52nd MIDWEST CONFERENCE IN PARTIAL
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
NOVEMBER 15-16, 2003
The Conference, hosted by the
School of Mathematics, was attended
by over50 participants, including
more than 25 out of town visitors,
who heardsome very interesting
talks from the following speakers:
John Lewis (Kentucky), Yi Li
(Iowa), Igor Rodnianski (Princeton/IAS),
Mikhail Safonov (Minnesota),
Sylvia Serfaty (Courant), Gieri
Simonett (Vanderbilt), Daniel
Tataru (UC Berkeley), and Kevin
Zumbrun (Indiana). The conference
dinner was held Saturday evening
at the Sawatdee Thai restaurant.
Special thanks to Kathy Swedell
and Harry Singh for their management
of the conference. (To give
just one example: Harry's acrobatic
negotiating skills produced
not one but two (!!) desserts
on the banquet table Saturday
night.) Thanks also to Rhonda
Dragan for a beautiful and useful
web-site and to Kate Houser
and Leanne Hewitt for timely
advice on conference planning.
The organizers of the conference
were M. Keel, N. Krylov, W.
Littman, P. Polacik, and V.
Sverak.
CONFERENCE ON "NEW DEVELOPMENTS
IN NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS",
JUNE 23 - 25, 2004
Professor James Serrin is organizing
a workshop to be held June 23
- June 25 at the University
of Minnesota on the topic "New
Developments in Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations".
The workshop is supported by
the Participating Institutions
of the IMA and also by the University
of Minnesota Foundation.
Speakers will include Filippo
Gazzola, Hans-Christoph Grunau,
Giovanni Leoni, Gary Lieberman,
Enzo Mitidieri, Patrizia Pucci,
Marco Rigoli, Guido Sweers,
Moxun Tang, Grozdena Todorova,
Hans Weinberger, and Henghui
Zou. For further information
please contact James
Serrin.
SECOND YAMABE MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
The Second Yamabe Memorial Symposium
is being planned for September
17 - 19, 2004. The symposium
will take place in the School
of Mathematics. The topic chosen
for this high-level conference
is "Geometry and Physics".
The list of confirmed speakers
includes the eminent mathematicians
Robert Bryant, Duke University;
Kefeng Liu, U.C.L.A.; Duong
Phong, Columbia University;
Yongbin Ruan, University of
Wisconsin; Isadore M. Singer,
M.I.T.; and Shing-Tung Yau,
Harvard University.
Organizing Committee: R. Gulliver
(Chair), N. C. Leung, T.-J.
Li, J. Wang
Robert Gulliver, Professor and
Chair of the Yamabe Symposium
Committee
History:
Yamabe Memorial Symposium, in
honor of the distinguished mathematician
Hidehiko Yamabe (1923-1960),
replaces, and continues in expanded
form, the Yamabe Memorial Lecture
which has been held annually
since 1989, in alternating years,
at the University of Minnesota
and at Northwestern University.
Lectures in this series have
been given by Professors Neil
Trudinger, Eugenio Calabi, Rick
Schoen, Shizuo Kakutani, Craig
Evans, Walter Rudin, Robert
Hardt, Katsumi Nomizu, Fred
Gehring, Richard Hamilton, Peter
Sarnak, Jeff Cheeger and S.-T.
Yau. The Yamabe Memorial Symposium
is an enhancement of this tradition.
Mathematicians will gather every
two years at the University
of Minnesota for a long weekend
to hear talks in an area related
to geometry, to discuss the
latest research and to interact
with younger mathematicians.
Professor Hidehiko Yamabe (1923--1960)
was an active and highly collaborative
mathematician in the School
of Mathematics at the University
of Minnesota from 1954 until
1960, the year of his untimely
death. His work on topological
groups, geometry and analysis
were outstanding contributions
to modern mathematics.
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